%0 journal article
%@ 0255-5476
%A Bowles, A., Dieringa, H., Blawert, C., Hort, N., Kainer, K.U.

%D 2005
%J Materials Science Forum, Magnesium – Science, Technology and Applications

%P 135-138 
%R doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.488-489.135
%T Investigations in the Magnesium-Tin system
%U https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.488-489.135
 
%X Currently most magnesium alloys are based on the Mg-Al system and this system is reasonably well developed. Nevertheless, the alloy system has some disadvantages - while having excellent castability and adequate room temperature mechanical properties Mg-Al alloys show poor creep resistance. This has led to investigations in other magnesium based systems; magnesium forms alloys with a large number of elements and, indeed a number of magnesium systems show good creep resistance. In this work, the Mg-Sn system has been chosen for study.